From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 03:56:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD0D16A41F for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:56:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from cobalt.antimatter.net (cobalt.antimatter.net [69.55.224.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D3743D45 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:56:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from glenn-mobile.antimatter.net (cpe-66-27-86-22.san.res.rr.com [66.27.86.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by cobalt.antimatter.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8C3uTLG031960 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:56:30 -0700 X-MailKey: purple frogs are falling from the sky Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20050911205014.046ca010@cobalt.antimatter.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:56:04 -0700 To: "!@#$%iii" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <20050912030502.81127.qmail@web32614.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050912030502.81127.qmail@web32614.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:56:31 -0000 At 08:05 PM 9/11/2005, !@#$%iii wrote: >We are running FreeBSD 4.7 and 4.10 on Intel SR2300 >servers with 1-2 GB of memory and Adaptec 2100s or >2010s raid cards. We are also using Seagate 73gb and >146GB 15k drives. > >We mirror drives 0 and 2 with drive 1 ad the back up. >But we get alot of server self reboots and then fsck's >to follow. This is causing more downtime as usual. > >Does anyone have an idea why this might be happening, >why the servers are periodically rebooting and also >why we might be seeing more drive failures than before >when running something like Unix or Linux? I never really got a chance to track down exactly why, but I've used seagate drives with adaptec raid cards in the past, and I found that most (if not all) the drives that were declared "bad" by the raid card, in fact only had a couple of sectors that were bad. Using the verify utility in the adaptec raid card to re-map the one or two bad sectors was all that was needed to re-use the drive. -Glenn >Thanks > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"